While Oscar learns to gamble as a way of praying, of attempting to discern God`s will, and thus achieves the only moments of peace he knows, Lucinda, early-orphaned daughter of a widowed ...

Gillian Armstrong transforms Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning “Oscar and Lucinda” into Australian Masterpiece Theater, as this romantic epic moves from the seaside cliffs and tidal pools ...

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Oscar and Lucinda meet on board ship where they discover a mutual love of gambling..... Oscar, poor soul, discovered his addiction some time earlier..... There is something intrinsically moving ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Peter Carey's novel Oscar and Lucinda turned the idea of nineteenth-century nation-building stories about industrious individuals on ...

Eccentric Australian love story about a preacher with a gambling addiction and his love for a beautiful heiress with a mutual love for playing games at high stakes. Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett ...

Composer Elliott Gyger reunites with librettist Pierce Wilcox for Carriageworks resident company Sydney Chamber Opera to transform Peter Carey's beloved novel Oscar and Lucinda into a new ...

Oscar’s is a lonely childhood among religious zealots in Devon, where he develops twin passions, God and gambling. The singular Lucinda, reared in Australia b a formidable mother is a “proud ...

There's a good deal more to Oscar And Lucinda, but the film is that rare thing, an unpredictable arthouse period piece, and difficult to synopsize because of it. Following some childhood scenes ...

Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in ...